Anderson Cooper

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June 03, 1967 in New York, New York, The United States

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Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Anderson Hays Cooper is an Emmy Award winning American journalist, author, and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories.

Cooper is the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II of the prominent Vanderbilt Family of New York.

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Books by Anderson Cooper

Average rating: 3.88 · 3,625 ratings · 609 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival 3.88 avg rating — 3,566 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The World of Gloria Vanderbilt by Wendy Goodman, Anderson Cooper (Foreword) 3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered by Kathleen Koch, Anderson Cooper 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent by Mario Tama (Photographer), Anderson Cooper (Introduction), Douglas Brinkley (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Attacks on the Press in 2006: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists by Committee to Protect Journalists (Manufacturer), Anderson Cooper (Preface by) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:

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Quotes by Anderson Cooper

“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper

tags: action , progress , travel

65 people liked it

“Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

tags: children , danger , death

26 people liked it

“Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself”
― Anderson Cooper

11 people liked it

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